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“But we’ve got this guy, Sam Taylor, who used to work with ZZ Top.’ So, they sent Sam over to a rehearsal, and Sam said to us, ‘You guys are pretty good.’ He seemed not too impressed, but he was willing to work with us, and then he went home. His ex-wife later told me he thought he had found the greatest thing in the world—that he might have found ‘the next Beatles’ and they were going to get rich. [Laughs] But he didn’t tell us that.”
― King's X: The Oral History
― King's X: The Oral History
“In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines. The”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“I hate how my body shivers at the idea of glory. There’s something deep in man that hungers for this. But I think it weakness, not strength, to abandon decency for that strange darker spirit.”
― Golden Son
― Golden Son
“Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.”
― 2010: Odyssey Two
― 2010: Odyssey Two
“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.… It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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163 books
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489 books
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82 books
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Biography, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science, Science fiction, and Thriller
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